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Jewish Law: New Perspectives (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, 26) by Suzanne Last Stone (editor), Yonatan Y. Brafman (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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New Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientation towards its broader academic and cultural significance. It shifts the study of Jewish law from its focus on legal doctrine and history to legal theory, achieving in the process a more sophisticated understanding of law that will benefit both the legal academy and Jewish studies. By employing the framework of legal theory, it similarly corrects an over-emphasis on the metaphysical presuppositions and philosophical implications of Jewish law, which has tended to cast it as exceptional relative to other legal systems. Moreover, it answers to old-new anxieties about law, often symbolized by Judaism, raised by contemporary feminists and by philosophers who are animated by recent interpretations of Paul through actual engagement with the Jewish legal tradition. The volume consists of three parts. The first focuses on the critique of positivism, its implications, and the new directions that it opens up for the analysis of Jewish law. The second part takes stock of recent methodological developments in the study of Jewish legal texts and investigates the relation betw

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Author

Suzanne Last Stone (editor), Yonatan Y. Brafman (editor)

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110336948

Category

nonfiction